It's #buyastrangerabook day's 8th birthday tomorrow. EIGHT YEARS! I've done some maths and I think that thanks to your amazing help, over 12,000 books have been given away since it started! It started here. www.bigissue.com/culture/book... THANKS!

If you check out the #buyastrangerabook hashtag and you live in the UK, you'll see about 10 unclaimed offers. People are offering to buy people books, but nobody is asking. It's not tricky to do. Essentially, people are being lovely. So check out the hashtag, stop being a doof, and just ask!

National Poetry Month: Prompt 28, from Erin Vachon! 💫 On poetic origins & myth making. @erinvachon.bsky.social #poetry #NaPoMo

THE BIG GREEN BOOKS 500 CLUB. We're looking for our 5th school to send £500 of books to! If you're a teacher/in a PTA etc & want to nominate your school, DO IT! Thanks so much to all the members of the Club. Your donations are making a huge difference! www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

This week's walk - a local stretch of the coast path in the warm spring sunshine. What a tonic! 🌊🌞 #SouthWestCoastPath

FlashFlood closes today at 23:59 BST. You still have time to submit up to 3 flashes of up to 300 words each. Pre 2023 prev published considered. Reserved spots for debut writers. Details here: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Delighted to have a spot in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Flash Flood this year! 🌊🌊🌊 Look for my tiny micro, Wind-up Shoes, around 08:45 BST on Sat 13th June. 😊

The shortlist for the 2026 #BranfordBoaseAward is out! Discover the 'magnificent' debut novels on this year's shortlist. Congratulations to these talented authors & editors 💐 & thank you to @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social & @alcs.co.uk for supporting the award. branfordboaseaward.org.uk/shortlist-20...

Rise and shine! Today's #DawnChorusClub challenge is in... On your next wander outdoors, send a friend a voice note or recording of any birdsong you hear. 🎵 (Bonus points if you share here too).

Kenyan born artist Magdalene Odundo, considered one of the premier ceramicists working today #womensart

Spring in The Malvern Hills.

FlashFlood is open! We’d love to receive your subs 😊 Flashes up to 300 words, pre 2023 prev published considered, reserved spots for debut writers. You have until 23:59 on 25 April: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #WomensArt

Use this tool to find out if your local health services use Palantir software, and register your objection. It takes 30 seconds. Well done @goodlawproject.org notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

ICYMI we're open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We look fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

10.25 AM. UK National Grid is currently whacking out 65.8% output by wind alone, solar another 23.3%. We are generating 114% of our demand & exporting 10% (4.7GW) to Europe & also replenish our pumped storage supply - using 4%. Fossil fuel is only generating 7.9% of output. #renewables #windpower

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info. This is the job, folks! bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

There are 7 slots for workshops on Sat and Sun at the festival with a choice of four or five in each. Here are two of them. The fab @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social & Alison Powell We’ll be sharing more workshops soon & thanks to festival team member @sarahillswrites.bsky.social for creating the pic

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We look fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

I've signed. Will you? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

MY BIG CLEAR OUT! Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author. You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P). Please share (and buy). UK only.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

So, this! I am, of course, delighted but also slightly speechless 😊 open.substack.com/pub/weatherg...

and we're open! we're looking for standalone novellas, 17.5K - 40K words, on the theme of environmental justice. check out our full guidelines here: reckoning.press/submit/novel...

Are you in need of a village? We are The Village with All of The Flash Writers. And here's the invitation link: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/plans/191340...

We are open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction #submissionsopen #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

I realised over Christmas that I’d never gotten my second MMR jab on account of childhood moves and policy changes. I emailed my GP and I just got it this morning, free on the NHS. It’s never too late and you can’t overdo it. Please get vaccinated. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Turn your book club into a force for good 📚✨ We're calling on book clubs across the UK to host a book swap, themed dinner, or other bookish bonanza to raise money to get more children reading! Interested? Sign up for your free pack with everything you need to get started 🩷 bit.ly/4bO33qs

AI may be able to mimic literature, but readers will always be hungry for organic, idiosyncratic, flawed and brilliant writing by real human beings. Bec Evans explains why we must keep writing in the age of AI in our latest Issue. Read the full article on our blog ✍️ mslexia.co.uk/magazine/blo...

this sums it all up very clearly, I think: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A number of people on this platform have been claiming that it's not up to government to shorten people's time on remand, however far beyond the statutory limit that time extends. Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Heyo, I'm trying a new monthly writerly hangout this year — a friendly, curious chat about all the things that spark (and stifle) our creativity... First session's tomorrow, Tues 13 Jan at 11am (recorded if you can't make it live): luma.com/ola4ukki Join The Great Unfuckening!

"Perhaps a person's life force is like a camp fire, and we keep it burning by telling our stories around it." Steven Kelman www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Tell Keir Starmer our food standards are not for sale. Sign the urgent petition and help stop chlorinated chicken entering the UK: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...

Don't give in, don't settle, and don’t let him take a single penny of our money. The BBC must stand its ground and defend the integrity of British journalism. Over 80,327 people have already signed to say we won't be bullied. Join them: 38d.gs/TrumpBBC_SMC... 2/2

Well, Holiday Inn is off the list when I’m on tour www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

The story of Europe’s economic decline while US is 'soaring' is everywhere. But it is wrong. It is a myth. Europe delivers more leisure, longer life expectancy, less inequality than the US. Gabriel Zucman dismantles the myths. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Three of the top five British grid electricity records smashed in 2025! This is a huge success story, despite what Russian bots and U.S fossil fuel shills scream on X. Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce means a safer future for our children…🥳